November 9, 2011
ESD Director Donald J. DePaolo talks about the link between climate change and the “carbon cycle change”: the fact that Earth’s carbon cycles have undergone revolutionary change, entirely due to human burning of fossil fuels and removal of forests
Read MoreNovember 4, 2011
ESD's Curt Oldenburg and Quanlin Zhou are part of an effort to determine whether a large fraction of Montana’s and nearby states’ CO2 emissions can be stored deep underground — where it can’t contribute to climate change.
Read MoreSeptember 20, 2011
Earthquakes can be caused by human engineering practices—see Induced Seismicity: Manmade Earthquakes, featuring ESD’s own Ernie Majer, to be aired on “Quest” tomorrow (Wednesday, September 21) at 7:30 on KQED Channel 9
Read MoreSeptember 6, 2011
The NGEE project will involve experiments at two different Alaskan sites to study the impact of rapid ecosystem changes caused by permafrost thaw, and how these changes influence greenhouse-gas release to the atmosphere.
Read MoreAugust 18, 2011
Ernie Majer and his team are exploring ways to increase the productivity and effectiveness of energy source recovery and geologic sequestration sites, while simultaneously informing and ensuring the safety of the neighboring public.
Read MoreJune 28, 2011
An international scientific team, including ESD’s Barry Freifeld, was awarded $5M by DOE to combine CCS with geothermal energy extraction techniques in developing a new kind of turbine.
Read MoreMay 6, 2011
Source: Kryshna Avina T.N. Narasimhan, passed away on Friday morning 29 April 2011 at Stanford University Hospital. He battled lymphoma bravely and nobly for nearly ten months keeping his usual positive, upbeat spirit through a series of treatments, surgeries, and recoveries of increasing rigor. T. N. Narasimhan obtained a B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Geology from the University of Madras (1956), and an…
Read MoreMay 4, 2011
Source: LBNL News Center “Our simulation found that large methane releases erode the ocean’s ability to consume methane. At this scale, resource limitations come into play,” says Matthew Reagan of Berkeley Lab’s Earth Sciences Division. Reagan is a co-author of an article on this research that was published in a recent issue of the Journal…
Read MoreFebruary 25, 2011
Source: Shane Fowles, The Standard A team from Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Korea, including ESD's Barry Freifeld have gathered at the Nirranda site to assess the ways carbon dioxide is trapped permanently in rock formations during deep geological storage. Read the full article here >
Read MoreFebruary 22, 2011
Timothy J. Kneafsey and Karsten Pruess As a possible means of reducing CO2 emissions into the atmosphere, ESD’s Timothy J. Kneafsey and Karsten Pruess have recently studied the injection of carbon dioxide (CO2) into deep saline aquifers and the benefits of enhanced CO2 dissolution into the local brine. The method involves CO2 being injected into…
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